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by ay 5y ago
Anycast setup will get you actual low ping times. This trick doctors the timestamps within the payload, so it reports as if the ping time was shorter. It is a subtle but quite important difference.
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by ay 5y ago
It’s curious that a Russian version is much more precise: “Not everything that glitters is gold”. (The truly 1:1 translation is “not everything is gold that glitters” but that word order felt very wrong and I believe the change doesn’t chan
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by ay 5y ago
You ought to use the past tense when speaking about 6to4.. As much as technically I think it was a brilliant idea (a whole /48 assigned to each existing IPv4 address owner), it failed because of the tragedy of commons.
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by ay 5y ago
And that is why the very first thing every new WiFi router in my household gets is a fresh installation of OpenWRT in place of whatever vendor software it has. And I look at compatibility matrix before buying it. This strategy has worked ve
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by ay 5y ago
Ok I update the reply here when I have something to share !
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by ay 5y ago
Ok I will post a reply here + do “show hn” or some such…
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by ay 5y ago
IPv4 options stopped being viable on the internet (everyone drops packets with options) sometime in early 2000s (the quickest doc with references I could find is [0] dated 2014, but I remember the practice started much earlier…), otherwise
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by ay 5y ago
We made something quite similar work rather well at $work. However, there is a somewhat subtle trick. The staging/prod candidate is built from master/main branch 21 days old , plus potentially some (few) cherrypicks. This allows
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by ay 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook The timing may be totally coincidental, of course…
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by ay 5y ago
The analogy that popped up in my head reading these threads is someone buying expensive and bulky yet useless for the recipient gift and then being upset when it is rejected. “But i paid a lot for it!”
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by ay 5y ago
I am judging it by the comments. I have been on both sides of this situation over the years, but it was never too extreme. On the maintainer side: I have a small project that has picked up some pace recently, though is still rather small, a
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by ay 5y ago
I think a lot of people treat the merge of a PR as their god-given right. Because they spent time on it. But if they spent the time without discussing with the maintainer first, why would they be obliged to merge it ? It is like spending a
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by ay 5y ago
tptacek’s original comment was amounting to “finger protocol is strictly worse than http” - which reads quite as an absolute judgement. Yeah, reusability and layering of engineering knowledge is useful - it makes dealing with complexity eas
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by ay 5y ago
> Finger on the other hand is would be a very narrow API to for a certain service without ANY of the flexibility of HTTP. That is the point. The flexibility is not free. Every conditional doubles the number of possible execution flows. T
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by ay 5y ago
The way I read it - finger protocol is a small rusty bike; whereas http by now is a fancy sports car. (Heck if we are talking http/2 or 3 it’s a damn flying car at that) We now all go about our daily bakery shopping in the fancy sports
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by ay 5y ago
The agreement to be a part of the society is an infringement on personal freedoms by definition - individuals agrees to constrain their behaviors to a set of rules, in return getting the benefit of scale. A healthy society by definition ai
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by ay 5y ago
It is strange to me how many think that “you are going to die” is a harsher threat than “you will live a long life that will be severely crippled”. If I die, I cease to exist. So, while from the standpoint of the pre-death me, it is very un
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by ay 5y ago
Just an idea, even if it may not sound as cool: Why not use a number YYYY.mmm.dd.seq (seq being the ordinal number of the commit within a 24h UTC period starting at 00:00Z), and you would get something that is relatively easily parsed by hu
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by ay 5y ago
And you can combine the two: https://fd.io/docs/vpp/master/whatisvpp/hoststack.html And there is a sister project using this tech to get noticeable speed-ups: https://wiki.fd.io/view&#x2F
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by ay 5y ago
Wow, that’s cool! (and chilling for that flight article…) I was thinking of an explicit personal instance (which may have selected shared components in a ballpark similar way as the open social does it), because the latest events with Apple
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by ay 5y ago
This is really cool even in its current form! Was very interesting to learn some new details about the local landmarks (center of Brussels). How did you determine the precise position on the map for the articles ? I have a long time toyed w
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by ay 5y ago
VPP ( http://fd.io ) NAT plugins are used in various production deployments. Various NAT-related perf tests: https://docs.fd.io/csit/master/report/vpp_performance_tests/... Disclaimer: I am in
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by ay 5y ago
The moment I see: - shutdown - backup + restore anew - bring up This triggers shivers. Nononono. - backup (while your current gif is running) - restore and test—verify (via a separate vhost) - delta-backup, delta-restore and test-verify -
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by ay 5y ago
I have seen the recommendation of X1, I can second that, with addition of x280. The serviceability is great, Google “thinkpad x280 hardware service manual” gives excellent doc, from the vendor ! (In fairness the same true for most thinkpads
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by ay 5y ago
There is another book “the complete idiot’s guide to chemistry of love”, which talks a lot about chemicals. (Great book too)
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by ay 5y ago
I had a problem of applying patches to the files that got indented differently meantime. So I wrote a tool that takes a context diff, rebuilds the before and after text, then parses both as vectors of (leading whitespaces, token), then crea
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by ay 5y ago
I smoked a pack a day for 18 years. In the past 10 years I smoked maybe 2-3 packs. The key hacks to this change for me were: 0) decided I will not put a hard barrier (“quit”) but rather reduce (“stop”). This reduces the guilt during the ine
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by ay 5y ago
True, so using the word “just” was a huge oversimplification on my side, I am sorry for that. I agree the US constitution can not be changed without getting the people’s minds changed about the guns being a meaningful freedom defense mechan
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by ay 5y ago
Just get the damn guns out of their reach. This “problem” is unique to America because of the stupid romance with guns. Stop selling the guns like candies and move on, like the rest of the world. Sure, there will be problems, but smaller.
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by ay 5y ago
All I care is a distributed text replication to all of the available platforms, with no lock-in and decent search. Standard notes does it perfectly. Context menu? Not sure what would I be using it for. But then again it’s my mode of operati

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